David Leitch is a net positive in the industry, the co-founder of the influential and unsung 87Eleven Action Design, and a tireless advocate for greater recognition of stunt performance and action design in the mainstream, but as a top-line director he is getting so badly cucked by his bestie Chad. A timely premise anchored around the star-stunted discourses on the delusions of stunting stars that is mainly interesting on a meta level for the tension between what it is ostensibly…

Depressing + rote geri-action legacyquel. Original duology flaunted a formal and narrative radicalism; this is just old fellas tediously longing to do cop shit again. Joey Pants: "Nothing sadder than an old man revisiting the past." Glorified Superbowl commercial; empty caricatures and self-referentiality. It's so immediately telling when they fuck up the hero shot—Belgian boys do your homework and watch the Tony Zhou video essay!! Prime Video's English subtitles relegate all Spanish dialogue to "[IN SPANISH]" so who knows what…